![]() ![]() Their lives are full of the practical necessities of running a farm, but also a kind of yearning: they are always wondering about the world around them. ![]() Living next door is Harry, a dairy farmer, whose wife, Edna, has left him, running off with a man from the bird fanciers’ club. In Mateship with Birds we meet Betty, who works as a nurse in an old people’s home and lives with her two children on a property outside the town. It’s a marvellous way of steeping the reader in the language, outlook and anxieties of the time. Carrie Tiffany’s inaugural Stella Prize–winning novel, Mateship with Birds, is set in the 1950s around Cohuna, a town in northern Victoria, and named after a 1922 book of bird notes by Australian writer Alec Chisholm.īoth in this novel and in her first, award-winning book Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, Tiffany re-creates historical periods through invoking the everyday publications – the guides, manuals, newspapers and magazines – of the age. ![]()
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